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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399425
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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes: Evidence from the health and retirement study
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760060
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How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods?
Kiessling, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...
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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - 2014
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435249
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842228
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180164
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207876
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376243
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Information provision and postgraduate studies
Berkes, Jan; Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2019
This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrollment intentions and realized enrollment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six month after...
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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity
Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019
One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...
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